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T. IVIl DAY CHECK.

APPLICATION FILED IAN.26. 1917. 1

Patented May14,1918.

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Patented May 14, 1918.

Application filed January 28, 1917. Serial No. 144,895.

To all whom t may concer/n.:

Be it known that LTnoMAs M. DAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Windfall, in the county of Tipton and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Check, of which vthe following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a piece of commercial paper in the form of a check, and the present invention aims to provide novel means whereby the check cannot be raised, it being a matter of common knowledge that the markings on a check can be altered readily, by means of liquid ink erasers and other del vices commonly resorted to by criminals.

With the above and other objects inview which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from f the spirit of the invention.

ln the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of a check embodying the present improvements; and

Figs, 2 and 3 are plan views showing disks which may be punched out of a table located at one end of the check.

In carrying out the resent invention there is provided a piece o commercial paper in the form of a check l provided adjacent one end 6 with a table 2, to be described in detail hereinafter, the table being adapted to be marked to denote the value of the paper. The check includes a date line 3, a signature line 4, which terminates at 5, short of the end 6 of the check, and a marking 7 denoting, in part, the value of the paper. The date lme 3, the signature line 4 and the marking 7 extend beyond the inner edge 8 of the table-2. Assuming that the check has been drawn for $24, it will be seen that it will be impossible to tear oli that end of the paper which carries the table 2 without mutilating the marking denoting the value of the paper, the said marking including the word dollars, shown at 7, and any words which may be written in advance of the word dollars. Likewise, the end of the paper carrying the table 2 cannot be torn off without carrying a part of the date, and a part of the signature on the line 4.,

, The signature line 4 terminates as shown at 5, short of the end 6 of the paper, and even 1f the signature should be written so close to the left hand end of the line 4 that the si ature will not be mutilated when the ri ht and end of thepaper 1, carrying the ta le 2, is torn ofi', the line 4, nevertheless, will extend to the right, to the extreme end of the check, after the said end of the check has been torn on", and the erson planning to pay the check, and knowing that the line 4 s ould terminate at 5, short of the edge 6, will be deterred from settling a raised check.

It is considered obvious that no person accustomed to commercial transactions, and familiar with a check of the kind shown in the drawing, would pay suoli a check if a portion of the date line 3 were torn olf, if a portion of the marking shown at 7, and in this case indicating a value of $24, were mul tilated, or if but a part of the signature appeared or, indeed, if the check did not show the Signature line 4 terminating at 5 in spaced relation to the edge 6.

A further means is provided whereby the raising of the check' will be rendered impossible, and in this connection, the construction of the table 2 should be noted in detail. The table 2 includes lines of numerals 9, and words l0 adjacent each line 9 of numerals, the words shown at 10 denoting the position of numerals in the various lines with respect to the decimal point. Let it be supposed that, the check having been drawn for $24, the numeral 4 in the line indicating units of dollars has been punched out, as shown in Fig. 2, to form a disk 11. This disk carries apart of the numeral 4, and a part of the word of lying above the numeral 4. Note the disk shown in Fig. 3. This disk, denoted by the numeral 17, having been punched out of the line indicating hundreds of dollars, carries, as shown at 15, a portion of the numeral 4, but carries, also, a portion of the letter d It will now be obvious that a check raiser, having a check of the kind shown in the drawings, and representing a value of $24, cannot punch out the numeral 4 in the hundreds of dollars line, t the disk shown at 17 into the hole in the units of dollars line, and thereby raise the value of the check to $420. The table 2, therefore, includes lines of numerals adapted to be punched out to denote the value of the paper, and words individual to the lines of numerals and indicating the position of the-numerals in each line with respect to the decimal point, like numerals in each line having disposed adjacent thereto,

Y different letters in the words of the respective lines, whereby the numerals in different lines cannet be punched out and interchanged, to eect an alteration in the value of the paper.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A piece of commercial paper provided with lines of numerals, the numerals in each line running from l to 9, and provided with a separate legend for each line of numerals from l to 9, the legends being disposed parallel to the lines of numerals and closely adjacent thereto, the legends denoting the positions of the respective lines of numerals ing punched out to denote the value of the paper and to form disks, like numerals in the respeetve lines having diierent letters in the legends disposed closely adjacent thereto, and the disks which carry like numerals having dierent letters from the le ends thereon.

n. testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own, l have hereto ailixed my signa ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

Genn Somone, NATHAN J. Davis. 

